Chapter 153: Godsbane System

Chapter 153: Godsbane System

The purple-haired girl stood high in the sky, her scarlet eyes staring at the enemies below, with lightning flashing on her body.

The one who is controlling this body now is the personality of the Stigmata, that is, the girl who named herself "Mei Hokuchin."

(TL: I forgot what her name is haha~)

She hasn't appeared in the real world for a long time. It's a rare opportunity for her to make a big scene, so she can't wait.

——After all, she was slightly affected by the power of the Herrscher, and she never had any objection to using violence to destroy something.

It was just that she had been suppressing this impulse for the sake of Raiden Mei.

But now, the opportunity for her to use her power wantonly to destroy the enemy is right in front of her. Mei also told herself not to worry about anything and just destroy as much as she wanted.

Before attacking, she first confirmed that Kirataka and Bronya were normal, and then began the cleaning and destruction operations.

She held a sharp blade transformed from thunder in her hand. Because of her power, dark clouds began to gather in the sky. Countless thunders fell from the sky and accurately struck one Titan mech after another.

With just one lightning strike, she could completely destroy a mecha, turning it into a piece of scrap metal that could no longer move.

Because Bronya and Kirataka were still there, she couldn't directly use large-scale thunder attacks and could only use this relatively inefficient method to eliminate them.

The remaining Titan mechas that had not been attacked also changed their targets. They no longer targeted Kirataka and Bronya but instead raised their guns and poured their remaining firepower toward Mei in the air.

Faced with the countless artillery fire, the purple-haired girl didn't care much. She just waved her hand and created an electromagnetic shield in front of her.

The azure shield blocked shell after shell, allowing the explosion to occur outside the shield without affecting her who was inside it.

At this moment, several special shells landed on the electromagnetic shield, and the explosion caused the indestructible shield to tremble slightly.

"...Um?"

Mei narrowed her eyes slightly.

This is a shell specifically designed to target electromagnetic shields. It can effectively weaken the shield's defense, and it is difficult to eliminate it because it is mixed in with ordinary shells.

Although a few shells would not have any effect on her shield, if the number increased, there was still a possibility of penetrating her defense.

Increasing the Honkai energy support for the electromagnetic shield to maintain it is naturally a solution, but she doesn't need to be stubborn in resisting these artillery fires. After all, it is just a waste of Honkai energy.

Besides, she didn't want to stay in the air any longer.

Well, the latter reason is actually the key point.

Thinking of this, the girl simply removed the electromagnetic shield that was protecting herself, and with a sword in hand, she fell to the ground like a bolt of thunder.

The violent impact directly destroyed a Titan mecha. After the smoke cleared, the girl stood on the wreckage of the mecha that had turned into scrap metal. Like a cold queen, she glanced coldly at the other enemies around her.

Before their guns turned back toward her, the girl moved again.

Wherever the lightning went, all the mechas were cut into several pieces. The mechas were enveloped by her thunder, emitting a burnt smell, and mechanical fragments flew everywhere.

The Herrscher of Thunder's extreme speed coupled with Hokuchin's swordsmanship with the sword left these bulky tactical mechas with no room to fight back and they could only passively take the beating.

The girl felt a hint of pleasure—after all, close combat was more exhilarating.

However, her actions were all expected by someone far away.

"Very good, the prey has been caught...trap, activate."

Through the photographic monitoring equipment, Gray Serpent watched the movement trajectory of the Third Herrscher.

"Destroy as much as you want, Herrscher. Before you know it, you have become... a bird in a cage."

The Titan mechas are nothing more than a group of cannon fodder. It is nonsense to expect them to defeat the Herrschers.

Their role was simply to use artillery fire to guide the Third Herrscher to descend from the air, ensuring that she would land on the ground and eventually... stand on the trap that it had carefully installed in the basement of the fortress.

Now is the perfect time to activate the trap.

As for Kirataka, he attributed the miraculous method he used to protect Bronya just now to some kind of ability of the Pseudo-Herrscher. Therefore, as long as this trap is activated, it should be able to affect him, making him temporarily disabled and completing the next capture.

Gray Serpent pressed the start button, and almost at the same time, a dazzling red light burst out from the underground of the entire square.

The light slowly rose from the ground, enveloping everyone present.

This red light had no effect on Kirataka, Bronya, and the surviving tactical mechas.

But the girl, who was still running and killing at a speed invisible to the naked eye, suddenly stopped.

"..."

Mei looked at the lightning on her right hand that was gradually disappearing, and a hint of astonishment flashed in her eyes.

——Her ability to control lightning and electromagnetism is rapidly disappearing.

For her, who was born a long time ago, controlling lightning is a natural and innate authority, as natural as birds flying and fish swimming. She has never imagined the possibility that she might one day lose the ability to control it.

The lightning dissipated from her body, and the physical enhancement brought by the power of the Herrscher was also weakened to a certain extent.

Although it did not disappear completely, it was impossible to move at the same high speed as before.

Take advantage of her weakness to kill her. Under Cocolia's order, the surrounding Titan mechas seized this opportunity and swarmed over, intending to trap Mei and give her a fatal blow, but unfortunately, Kirataka was faster than them.

Before the mechas' attacks fell on Mei, Kirataka arrived at the side of the purple-haired girl first.

[Infinity] After resisting the mecha's heavy punch attack, Kirataka held Mei in his left hand and Bronya in his right hand and flew into the air with the two girls, landing on the plane cut by Mei.

"Hmm... what on earth is this..."

The originally arrogant Queen of Thunder and Lightning, having lost her power, rarely showed a weak expression.

Kirataka consoled:

"This is a trap that Cocolia prepared for you. It is a special electromagnetic field that temporarily suppresses your connection with the imaginary space. Don't worry, this effect is only temporary."

The force acting on Mei is the effect of the [Moonlight Throne].

——A restriction device developed using technology from a previous civilization that targets the core of the Herrscher. It can disrupt the connection between the Herrscher and the imaginary space, causing the Honkai energy in their bodies to become disordered temporarily.

Of course, judging by the tragic situation of the former civilization being destroyed by Herrschers one after another, this device probably didn't play a big role.

It is estimated that this thing was developed after the Herrscher of Sentience, and the last two Herrschers before the End, Herrscher of Binding and Herrscher of Corruption, are not beings that can be affected by the Moonlight Throne.

One relies on a barrier with a radius of 100 kilometers to make all weapons and soldiers lose their combat capabilities, and the other... is a demon that lives in an ordinary girl and only appears after her death.

Simply put, it was born at the wrong time.

It was not born when it was needed, and after its birth, it did not play any role for subsequent Herrschers. It can be said that it is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.

Moreover, judging from the difficulty of taking effect and the effect, it is not as good as the HSN-b46 serum.

Not only does it require setting traps at fixed locations to lure targets in, making them easy to discover and deal with in advance, but the effects after they take effect are far inferior to those of the serum.

At that time, Kiana was affected by the serum for nearly half a day. If it weren't for the absorption of Honkai energy near the Serenity Gem, this time would probably have been even longer.

The so-called [Moonlight Throne] could only suppress Mei's Herrscher ability for a few minutes at most.

From this perspective, the current civilization is not completely inferior to the previous civilization; there is still technology that can surpass that era.

And this thing is the last resort of Cocolia and Gray Serpent. Their wishful thinking should be to use the trap of the [Moonlight Throne] to first weaken Mei's Herrscher power and then use the Titan Mecha's siege tactics to seriously injure Mei, prolong the effective time of the [Moonlight Throne], and make her unable to recover in a short time.

After that, Cocolia could easily capture the third Herrscher and obtain the Conquest Gem she had been dreaming of.

Speaking of which, Gray Serpent really spent a lot of resources, laying the [Moonlight Throne] underground across the entire square to ensure that it could bind Mei.

It's a pity that they didn't take into account their true strength. Even with the protection of the [Infinity], no matter how hard these Titan mechas fired, they could not penetrate his defense and harm Bronya or Mei.

As a device for special attacks against Herrschers, the [Moonlight Throne] had almost no effect against beings other than Herrschers, and therefore could not affect him or Bronya.

Next, he could completely rely on the deployment of skills to maintain defense, wait for Mei to recover her power and then counterattack, or rely on his own strength to clear out these mechas.

But there was no point in doing so.

Cocolia is not a fool. Once she realizes that there is no chance to capture Mei alive this time, her escape is almost certain.

But letting Cocolia live through today and see tomorrow's sun is not the future he wants.

Now, all the information is in his hands and this time he has obtained everything he wanted to know.

So...

Let's adjust the tactical arrangements and launch a surprise attack again.

Time, going back.

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